[SOLVED] Intellij idea rest client file uploading path as parameter

Intellij idea rest client file uploading path as parameter

Trying to make POST request with file as path and added it as variable


###Import
POST http://localhost:8088/v1/import/example/file
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=boundary

--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="Example.json"
Content-Type: multipart/form-data;

<{{fileLocation}}

--boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="environment"

{{env}}
--boundary

###
this is my env.json
{
  "tst": {
    "env": "TST",
    "fileLocation": "C:\Temp\Example.json"
 }
}

And keep getting "The file is empty or not parsable" and in the logs txt file is written like this only < C:\Temp\Example.json
Same path without variable works fine.

Solution

Looks like a known bug. The fix is coming in 2023.3.2 update. You can try 2023.2.5 from https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/other.html as a workaround.